the numerous Family of Colworts, or the Cabbage-kind.

"_Quid dicam quanta jactat se Brassica laude?
Sive volubilibus redit in se frondibus, Orbesque
Orbibus agglomerans, capitis sub mole laborat;
Tornato similes Ebori seu candida Flores
Ediderit, seu Coniacas imitata Cupressus,
Seque suas plicat in frondes, & acumen in album
Desinit, & tenui venit haud ingloria Mensæ.
Sive hieme in media cum cætera frigore torpent
Loeta viret, Boreamque trucem, Caurosque malignos
Despiciens, vacuis ultro Dominatur in hortis._"

In his Description of the Farm-yard, he paints the following several
Sorts of Fowls in this Manner:

"_Se pictæ cervicis_ Anas | _& Garulus_ Anser
_Tarda mole movent: | habitu_ Gallina _modesto
Progreditur: | Caudam_ Gallus _Cristasque rubentes
Erigit, | & motis sibi plaudit Lætior alis_."

And I cannot omit this most charming Verse which describes the
Courtship of a Pigeon.

"_Sæpe solum verrens Pennâ pendente rotatur._"

"Oft with his trailing Wing the wanton Dove
Brushes the Ground, and wheels about his Love.

Such Verse as this must please in all Ages, and in all Countries,